Next month, the UK will do its most thorough census yet. A century ago, a new expanded form was evidence of a government's thirst for knowledge in their efforts to help a population stricken by ...

The 2011 census statistics that have just been released give a detailed look at the make-up of the population of England and Wales. The Guardian's data team has mapped and analysed each demographic, ...

Almost the entire 1911 census goes online for public access on Tuesday. Rob Liddle looks at what we can hope to find out from it and how organisers hope to avoid a repeat of the deluge that shut the ...

Marital discord takes many forms. But that between Edward Maund and his wife Eleonora has gone down in history as a fascinating symbol of the power of early day feminism. At the beginning of the last ...

It was seven years before even women over 30 got the vote, 17 before more universal suffrage, and two before Emily Davison was trampled by the King's horse at the Derby. And while women were already ...

John Beckham could not have comprehended the lifestyle that his great-great-great grandson David would lead. He was a scavenger employed by a London borough council to wade into the mud of the Thames ...

The Central Statistics Office released digitized tables revealing Meath as the most wealthy county in 1911 with Donegal coming in with the highest rate of poverty. The CSO's digitized census 1911 ...

Next month, the UK will do its most thorough census yet. A century ago, a new expanded form was evidence of a government's thirst for knowledge in their efforts to help a population stricken by ...